He portrayed the stark reality of human life in colloquial language. Parra is known as the founder of antipoetrya term coined by the poet to describe a form of poetry. Parra created the antipoetry movement as he rewrote the rules on producing poetry. Nicanor parra was one of the most important latin american poets of the 20th century, heralded for his biting, ironic, lucid stylewhat he called antipoetry. The great nicanor parra turned onehundred years old last september. Nicanor segundo parra sandoval 5 september 1914 23 january 2018 was a chilean poet. In 1972, chilean poet nicanor parra published his latest collection of poetry. Orlando rated it it was amazing nov 06, want to read saving. The following entry presents an overview of parras career. Parra came from the artistically prolific chilean parra family of performers, musicians, artists, and writers.
Obviously, nobody has wanted to miss the opportunity to celebrate and honor the worldrenowned antipoet. This poet mocked his readers, he used vulgarity, sarcasm, irony, black humor. David rated it it was amazing jul 14, books by nicanor parra. Parra described himself as an antipoet, due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function. The chilean poet nicanor parra has died aged 103 at his home in las cruces, his family has confirmed. He reminded the awaiting death of everybody in most of his poems. Their power is as strong as the reached on his antipoems. Buscalibre chile libros del autor nicanor parra ver opiniones y comentarios. Nicanor parra revistas electronicas uach universidad austral. Parra, who described himself as an antipoet, shunned traditional poetic techniques and. Nicanor parra is an important poet of child which is the country of paplo neruda.
The physicist who made a significant contribution to. He called his poetics as anti poetry since he smashed the prevailing aesthetics of poetry. Parra claimed poetry as a colloquial, irreverent art. The objective of the present work is to study some discursivetextual aspects of nicanor.
Nicanor parra was trained as a mathematician and physicist at brown university and at oxford, where he came to embrace principles of relarivity in a physical mode, principles that carry over into cl1e epistemological concerns of his poems. Nicanor parra, born september 5, 1914, san fabian, chiledied january 23, 2018, santiago, one of the most important latin american poets of his time, the originator of socalled antipoetry poetry that opposes traditional poetic techniques or styles parra studied mathematics and physics at the university of chile in santiago. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. His sister, violeta parra, is possibly the most important folk singer the nation has he described himself as an antipoet, due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and functionafter recitations he would exclaim.
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